Dog name lists / By Language & Origin
Greek Mythology Dog Names
Greek gods dominate big-dog naming: Zeus is a top-50 name in the license data and 5× over-indexed among dobermans. The pantheon has a name for every temperament — wisdom (Athena), sun (Apollo), war (Ares), and wine-dark chaos (the rest).
| Name | Gender | Trend | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zeus King of the gods — a top-50 name and a doberman favorite. | Boy | ||
| 2 | Phoebe Bright Titan of prophecy. | Girl | ||
| 3 | Apollo Sun, music, prophecy — 6× over-indexed among great danes. | Boy | ||
| 4 | Athena Wisdom and war strategy, top-150 in our data. | Girl | ||
| 5 | Hercules The twelve labors, mostly fetching. | Boy | ||
| 6 | Echo Repeats everything — like a husky. | Either | ||
| 7 | Atlas Carries the world; drags the leash. | Boy | ||
| 8 | Titan The generation before the gods — 10× over-indexed among rottweilers. | Boy | ||
| 9 | Iris The rainbow messenger. | Girl | ||
| 10 | Artemis Goddess of the hunt — squirrels beware. | Either | ||
| 11 | Achilles Invulnerable, except the one spot. | Boy | ||
| 12 | Ares God of war, destroyer of couches. | Boy | ||
| 13 | Ajax The Iliad's shield-wall. | Boy | ||
| 14 | Hera Queen of Olympus. | Girl | ||
| 15 | Nyx Primordial night. | Girl | ||
| 16 | Hermes Fastest god on the block. | Boy | ||
| 17 | Pandora Opened the box. It was full of tennis balls. | Girl | ||
| 18 | Calypso The island enchantress. | Girl | ||
| 19 | Cerberus The underworld's three-headed good boy. | Boy | ||
| 20 | Poseidon For dogs that live in the water bowl. | Boy | ||
| 21 | Socrates Knows that he knows nothing. Sits anyway. | Boy | ||
| 22 | Selene The moon herself. | Girl | ||
| 23 | Gyro The delicious end of Greek naming. | Boy | ||
| 24 | Medusa One look and you're frozen — usually at dinnertime. | Girl | ||
| 25 | Feta Crumbly, salty, Greek to the core. | Either | ||
| 26 | Helios The sun's charioteer. | — | — | |
| 27 | Sparta This. Is. Fetch. | Either | ||
| 28 | Kronos Father Time, with teeth. | Boy |